Short Bio:
Timia D. Thompson is a graduate of the University of Florida (UF) with a B.S. in Environmental Science and a minor in English. She recently completed her Master’s degree in Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management at North Carolina State University. Her thesis was entitled, “Examining the Effects of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Age, and Socioeconomic Status on U.S. National Park Visitation: An Application of the Multiple Hierarchy Stratification Perspective”. She is currently working on her Ph.D. also at NC State. Timia’s professional interests include race and ethnicity, national parks, environmental socialization, and physical activity in urban parks. She is a member of the George Wright Society, the North Carolina Recreation and Park Association (NCRPA) and the National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA), where she sits on the board of the NRPA Student Branch Board of Directors as President-Elect.

• National parks; urban parks and greenspace; environmental socialization; connecting people to the environment; race, gender, and park use; multiple hierarchy stratification; sociology of racism.

08/2006-Present                        North Carolina State University                                       Raleigh, NCGraduate Research & Teaching Assistant—Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management

• Assisting in research projects, data collection, creating and reviewing documents, grading papers, administering tests and quizzes

08/2006-12/2006          The First Tee of Wake County                                        Raleigh, NC
Data Entry and Event Assistant

• Assisting with golf events and programs, Updating database, Helping to maintain financial records

05/2006-08/2006          Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area                 Atlanta, GA
Student Conservation Association (SCA) Intern

• Planned and Lead Interpretative programs, Helped plan and facilitate two festivals, Created educational media, Staffed park events

08/2005-05/2006          North Carolina State University                                       Raleigh, NC
Graduate Research Assistant—Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management

• Assisted Graduate Advisor with research on park use, physical activity, and other recreation and leisure research, Created and reviewed documents

05/2005-08/2005          UF School of Forest Resources & Conservation               Gainesville, FL
Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) Intern

• Collected data for study on the recreational use of the Florida National Scenic Trail, Entered data and helped write report

07/2002                        YWCA of the Midlands                                                  Columbia, SC
Eureka! Camp Counselor

• Supervised girls 11-16 ; Planned and Lead Outdoor Camp Activities

·         Floyd, M.F., Bocarro, J.N., & Thompson, T. D. (in press). Research on race and ethnicity in leisure studies: A review of five major journals. Journal of Leisure Research.

·         Floyd, M. F., Bocarro, J. N., and Thompson, T. D. (2007). “An analysis of research themes and methods on race and ethnicity in leisure studies.” Leisure Research Symposium (LRS) 307: Race & Ethnicity I. National Recreation & Park Association (NRPA) Congress & Exposition, Indianapolis, IN
    Oral Presentation

• Thompson, T. D. and Moore, R. L. (2007). “Understanding Motivations for the Use of the Museum Park at the North Carolina Museum of Art”. 29^th Annual Southeastern Recreation Research Conference, Asheville, NC
          Oral Presentation
• Leung, Y., Laven, K., Freeman, S. E. , Smith, I. and Thompson, T. D. (2006). “Examining the Emerging Concept of Urban Ecotourism and Its Applicability to Central North Carolina”. 28^th Annual Southeastern Recreation Research Conference, Wilmington, NC
  • -Poster Presentation

• Music, performance art and theater, boxing, "the outdoors," hiking, reading, documentary and foreign film, wine, spending time with friends and family.

• Thompson Resume